We're constantly doing experiments.
We're constantly collecting data.
We're constantly trying to answer questions,
and usually that leads to more questions.
The focus of the question though
is, what happens when you take gravity away?
Because it's such a strong force, it masks lots of the nuances
in different things that behave around us.
And understanding those nuances helps us understand more about
ourselves as well as the universe and how we interact with it.
So we look at medicines, we look at materials
and making new materials.
We look at how we behave
so that we know how medicines might interact
with us or how to counteract diseases.
You name it, we're doing research on it up here.
We've had opportunities to do all sorts of science, spacewalks.
It's varied and a pretty awesome, actually,
opportunity to do something different every single day.
You can see Butch Wilmore with the different canisters
to collect those microorganism swabs.
A great view
from the helmet camera of NASA astronaut Nick Hague.
You can see floating off just past that left hand of his,
those are the wedge shaped, NICER patches that he will be inserting
into the NICER experiment, the X-ray telescope.
Anytime you look out the window, it's pretty amazing.
The aurora borealis, the aurora australis,
just to see the variety of the Earth from above.
It's just thrilling.
These are called Astrobees.
So they actually can come off the wall and fly around.
Huge opportunities
for people to test out guidance, navigation control
on a quote unquote spacecraft in microgravity inside here.
So we have companies, universities, students
all flying these Astrobees around at different times.
Some of them are actually even grabbing on
to other pieces that we might have floating around
and that might help us clean up space debris.
We have a tray right here that does some combustion experiments.
Right on the other side of Butch is a glovebox where
we've done some stem cell research as well as DNA sequencing.
And there's an airlock where it can take payloads
out of the space station.
And those could be Earth, observation satellites.
They could be launchers of other microsatellites.
They could be doing all sorts of amazing stuff.
The mission of the space station, the scientific exploration
is something that we deeply believe in.
And it's ability to make a positive impact for all of humanity.